TASS Technician / Certified Advanced Climber & Instructor

Start Date: 2011-09-01End Date: 2014-06-02

The system consists of thermal imagers, sensors, communications, power and annunciation components. The system provides for wide-area and perimeter intrusion detection, assessment, and surveillance via both hardwire and UHF/VHF communications. Sensor technologies include wide-area and short range radar, microwave, thermal, active and passive infrared, seismic, magnetic, and trip-wire. For fixed and semi-permanent site installations, delay/denial capabilities may also be used within TASS such as fence sensors and various barrier technologies. TASS users can receiver sensor alerts via hand-held (roving patrol) devices and/or map based PC annunciators known as Sector Command Posts (SCPs), which can also communicate events to a centralized Base defense operations center (BDOC). TASS operators can employ a variety of camera systems such as CCTV and high tech military cameras such as Wide-Area Surveillance Thermal Imagers (WSTI) and Long Range Thermal Imagers (LRTIs) which detect enemy movement by tracking body heat or other heat resonances. Camera devices can be programmatically linked to automatically slew to a target's location upon sensor activation which provides for near real-time assessment. TASS communications is via RF and/or hardwire, depending on the TASS element being considered. Microwave links are also used for long distance communications with outlying devices such as the WSTI, LRTI and RADAR equipment. For tactical deployments, the system is designed to be packed into specialized containers of varying sizes that support differing levels of capability. TASS has evolved and has been refined for more than a decade allowing for major additions and improvements in equipment functionality, reliability, and operational availability. TASS has been and continues to be used very effectively in Iraq and Afghanistan where early detection of insurgents is critical to personnel and material survivability. Also, Bosch CCTV/Switching

Junior Engineer

Start Date: 2007-10-01End Date: 2009-06-01

Maintained our Studio and Sets. Performed maintenance on all editing Suites. Worked with/on Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Robotic Tape Archive System. Maintained the Emergency Alert Systems at all company owned Transmission Sites; Atlanta, New Orleans, Panama City, Key West, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head. Maintained premise connectivity on several hotel/condo sites. Experience working in Cable System Head-Ends. Experience with Hardware Graphic Generator, Tandberg Hardware and Software, Blonder Tounge Equipment, Pico Macom, Scientific Atlanta. Troubleshooting on Windows XP Pro workstations. Computer Bench-work. Workstation builds and rebuilds. HDD Imaging & Re-Imaging. Export from Beta to Digital and DV and dubbing via hardware and software. Set-up of small office networks made use of VPNs and VLANs in these environments. Managing our Fonality VoIP System at both corporate and satellite offices. Experience with Cisco IOS 12.1(T&S)+. Experience with Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory -- adding, removing user. Creating text files to add mass amounts of users to Active Directory. Experience with Computer/Network Forensics via college course work. Set-up the companies FCC File database for public inquiries per FCC Laws. Helped to establish a SOP to keep the File Database up-to-date. Personally kept the database up-to-date - had to request documents from various corporate departments and get everyone to collaborate monthly to keep stations in Compliance with FCC Law. I was the companies Liasion between FCC Field Engineers and Officers; also, between the company and our Broadcast Lawyer. Between me and the lawyer and FCC we managed to get all of the company owned Stations in compliance with FCC Law.